Muskegon Sun

Baker College of Muskegon issued the following announcement on November 28

THE Awards 2019 winners

Taking on a vital social mission – and excelling in delivering on that goal – ensured that the University of Strathclyde was the big winner at the Times Higher Education Awards 2019.

Judges who handed the Glasgow institution the coveted University of the Year title said that it had returned to its founding vision as the “place of useful learning” and “set itself the task of reviving Scotland’s traditional industrial base with a scale of ambition that has multiplied rapidly over the past decade”.

The award honours Strathclyde’s success in creating a series of collaborative research centres that share expertise and equipment with industry and developing Scotland’s first innovation district, as well as its influence on policy – typified by the contribution of pollster Sir John Curtice.

Times Higher Education Awards 2019: shortlist announced

Strathclyde also won the Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year category for its Breaking Barriers initiative, which gives young people with learning disabilities access to education and work experience opportunities.

The awards were presented at a ceremony hosted by the comedian Julian Clary at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. They recognise UK universities and their staff for exceptional teaching, research, student support, entrepreneurship, collaborations and outreach.

John Gill, THE’s editor, said: “Our universities – every single one of them, in every corner of the UK – are packed with individuals and teams doing truly extraordinary things, things that transform lives and, in some cases, change our world.”

The shortlists for the awards were, he added, “full of fantastic examples” of this.

Loughborough University pulled off a hat-trick of wins, topping the Outstanding Entrepreneurial University, Excellence in Registry Services and Outstanding Marketing/Communications Team categories.

There was double success for the University of West London, which scooped the title for Outstanding Financial Performance and saw its Claude Littner Business School win the Business School of the Year prize.

The THE Lifetime Achievement Award went to Dame Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge, for her “indefatigable and pioneering” efforts to push gender equality to the top of the science policy agenda.

chris.havergal@timeshighereducation.com

Times Higher Education Awards 2019 Winners

University of the Year

University of Strathclyde

International Collaboration of the Year

University of Essex

Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development

University of Nottingham

Business School of the Year

Claude Littner Business School, University of West London

Technological or Digital Innovation of the Year

Swansea University

Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year

University of Strathclyde

Highly commended: De Montfort University

Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Birmingham City University

Highly commended: University of Dundee

Research Project of the Year: STEM

University of Portsmouth

Highly commended: University of Nottingham, in collaboration with UCL

Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year

Tong Sun, City, University of London

Highly commended: Nicky Milner, University of York

Most Innovative Teacher of the Year

Tom Delahunt, Canterbury Christ Church University

Highly commended: Sharon Tolaini-Sage, Norwich University of the Arts

Outstanding Support for Students

Newcastle University

Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community

University of Worcester

Outstanding Entrepreneurial University

Loughborough University

Outstanding Strategic Planning Team

Sheffield Hallam University

Excellence in Registry Services

Loughborough University

Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year

Manchester Metropolitan University

Outstanding Financial Performance

University of West London

Outstanding Marketing/Communications Team

Loughborough University

Highly commended: University of Nottingham

Outstanding Estates Strategy

Harper Adams University

Outstanding Library Team

University of Kent

Outstanding Technician of the Year

Barbara Kunz, The Open University

Highly commended: Samantha McCormack, Bucks New University

THE DataPoints Merit Award

King’s College London

THE Lifetime Achievement Award

Dame Athene Donald, University of Cambridge

Original source can be found here.

Source: Baker College of Muskegon